@agent86 What are those answers doing for Gaming? What value do they have? Do we really make the internet a better place by leaving a -6 answer, or an answer from a new user that says "with almost all of the side quests done, I completed in 21 hours"?

@agent86 But it seems like you're making the case that you mods do clean up crap answers: if that's the case, then great. But the impression I've gotten in the past has been that Gaming moderators will not delete any answer, no matter how bad, if it even remotely relates to answering the question

We have flags that we see a lot here, most often "Low Quality" and "Not An Answer". These work great and have been really helpful when you actually beat Community user and they're on posts like:
Answers that are new questions, or just re-asking the same question as the author
Answers that are c...

Technically the answer is still an answer, it's just wrong because the answerer did not understand correctly what the answer is about. And wrong = downvoting, not moderator intervention.
However, in practice, I think we can all agree these answers add nothing to the site and could be safely remo...

I am looking to purchase Civ. V finally, and I see two different ones on steam.
Civ. V
Civ. V GOTY
What are the differences between them? Does Civ. V GOTY include an expansion pack or DLC?
There is $20.00 difference and I am wondering if it is worth it. (IMO GOTY editions are worth it)

MINECRAFT. What key will let me eat?! My food bar is down low, and I'm not regenerating health. I also need to know which button to press to hand bones to wolves, or fish to kitties. It used to be the right click button, but I'm not getting that option. Help! I haven't played in about a year...

I've recently installed DJoslin's FiniteWater 5.6 mod but am having a little bit of difficulty with how it works. The site says Any water disconnected from the ocean and low in mass will be finite and react to changes in volume. - what is classed as "low in mass"?
My plan was to block off the se...

Are there enough skulls in the game to buy all upgrades? Each level seems to offer only up to five; with a new trap given every level and upgrades costing more than five skulls, it seems like you can never get enough skulls.
Or can you?

These are the kind of posts that qualify, very strongly, under the descriptions "not useful" and "not clear", which are exactly what the downvote tool is for. And that's pretty much all that will happen, because these kind of posts fall out of the scope of what we, as moderators, are expected to handle.

That read very much to me like "We don't delete them. use your downvotes!"

I've had my eye on this question for a while: How long is Mass Effect 3 on normal difficulty?
I didn't think it was a very good question, but I answered it and pointed to HowLongToBeat.com and tried to explain in my answer specifically why a site like this is needed to provide a good answer to t...

I should probably expand that latter bullet point to include "deserve deletion", I s'pose

user2334

8:26 PM

To expand on what @Sterno said, the only reason I necessarily care (besides the selfish reason of increasing my flag count) is that many problematic questions are only problematic in that they attract low rep users who don't understand how Stack Exchange works. The ME3 completion time question isn't bad per se, just most of the answers. The accepted one is pretty good.

This could be a possible duplicate but the other question like this one has no answers so, I think it is safe to ask. As we all know there are weapons that look unique and have unique enchantments. I however, have not found a single unique weapon that is a bow. There is the bow that you get from ...

By reading the wiki of unique weapons I learned that I am supposed to get a special dagger called "Keening" for completing "Arniel's Endeavor." However, I completed this quest days ago and do not possess this weapon. Since at the end of the quest Arniel implies that he has to wait for something e...

I'm regretting the decision immensely to not start with automap.
Could anyone explain where they meet? I've googled a billion times but can't find a helpful answer, as it seems everyone else had the genius idea of embarking with autom

After a few attacks, I figured out the idea behind it all. The messenger summons meteorites and teleports away if you get too close. So I stand in the spot he's going to next appear, wait for a red circle to appear and then rush towards him. The idea being that the meteor will hit him.
However, ...

It is sooooo annoying. It just came up while I was playing Civ 5 but i get it more in full screen of BF3. I tell it to never prompt me about it again and after I restart, eventually the error comes up again.

I have 2 vgas in crossfire. Performance is great. Why does windows need to tell me to turn aero off? or can I just turn it off manually (avoid the popup maybe? )

Proposal: Magic: The Gathering
We are going to close the Magic: The Gathering proposal here on Area 51.
There are a number of reasons for this. I'll do my best to enumerate them:
Currently, Board and Card Games adequately serves the MTG community. There are 270 questions there, many with mul...

Recently I have been having issues when trying to play a replay whether it is recent or an old one that I had saved. All replays show up as "Unable to Open Replay" here is a screenshot below:
So how do I fix this and re-enable myself to watch the replays?

I'm a newbie of GTA IV.
My GTA IV version is 1.0.7.0.
But there is no AA setting.
The image looks fine but if you save the image and see it bigger size, you can see clear aliasing. it looks very dirty.
so i'm trying to accept AA by NVIDIA control panel(I'm using GTX560ti), but it's not effe...

A triple-click is the action of clicking a computer mouse button three times quickly without moving the mouse. Along with clicking and double-clicking, triple-clicking allows three different actions to be associated with the same mouse button. Criticism of the double-click mechanism is even more valid for triple-clicks. However, few applications assign critical actions to a triple click.
Examples of usage
On text
In most text processing programs and edit controls triple-clicking with the primary mouse button (the left button for right-handers) on the text selects the entire line. If the...